How to do Leg Extensions for Prenatal Yoga

Series Summary

Yoga is a very flexible exercise system which can be adjusted to meet very specific needs, such as those of the ever-changing body of a pregnant woman. Prenatal yoga focuses on poses and workouts that are good for the unborn child as well as the expecting mother. While there are many poses that are not good for pregnant women, there are many that they can utilize to help stay in shape and even help their pregnancy. If you are pregnant it is good to talk to an instructor to decide which poses will be best for you. Your poses will be limited as the pregnancy progresses due to the enlarged belly.

In this series of maternity fitness videos, our experienced yoga instructor shows you how to do poses chosen with the needs of a expecting mother in mind. This series gives you a variety of prenatal yoga poses and exercises to choose from, such as leg extensions, the happy baby pose, the bridge pose,and side spinal twists, all chosen with the pregnant woman in mind. Our expert even features an actual expecting mother demonstrating these exercises.

Video Transcript

"We are going to have Emily here coming into some nice leg extensions to kind of finish off her practice today. She is laying on her side, hands together in pray, neck is comfortable. Yes! Perfect and it kind of using the hip open and then take it to the next level. So we are working with the breath very slowly. Inhale, lift the knee, open up that hip. Excellent! Extend the leg all the way up pressed to that heel. Inhale bend the knee. Exhale and release all the way back down to the knee. Doing it again inhale, open up the hip. Exhale, extend the leg. Perfect! Inhaling bend the knee, exhale release back and bend the knee closing that hip up. One last time inhale, open up the hip, lift the knee. Exhale extend that leg straight out pressing through the heel. Lovely. Inhaling bend the knee. Exhale knees down bend the the knee making sure that you do both sides at home. "